Physics Based Animation Book

Part I: The Kinematics;
Chapter 1: Introduction to Physics-Based Animation;
Chapter 2: Introduction to Kinematics;
Chapter 3: Forward Kinematics;
Chapter 4: Backward Kinematics;
Chapter 5: Animating Deformations;

Part II: The Dynamics of Particle Systems;
Chapter 6: Introduction to the Dynamics of the Particle Systems,
Chapter 7: Particle Systems; Chapter 8: Mass-Spring Methods;

Part III: The Dynamics of Rigid Bodies;
Chapter 9: Introduction the to Dynamics of Rigid Bodies;
Chapter 10: Penalty-Based Rigid Body Simulation;
Chapter 11: Impulse-Based Rigid Body Simulation;
Chapter 12: Constraint-Based Rigid Body Simulation;
Chapter 13: A General Module-Based Design for Rigid Body Simulators;
Chapter 14: Multibody Heuristics;

Part IV: The Dynamics of Deformable Bodies;
Chapter 15: Introduction to the Dynamics of Deformable Bodies;
Chapter 16: Continuum Models with Finite Differences;
Chapter 17: The Finite Element Method;
Chapter 18: The Finite Boundary Method;
Chapter 19: The Finite Volume Method;
Chapter 20: Cloth Simulation;
Chapter 21: Computational Fluid Dynamics;

Part V: Mathematics and Physics for Animation;
Chapter 22: Introduction to Collision Detection;
Chapter 23: Space Partitioning;
Chapter 24: Feature- Based Algorithms;
Chapter 25: Simplex-Based Algorithms;
Chapter 26: Volume-Based Algorithms;

Part VI:Mathematics and Physics for Animation;
Chapter 27: Vectors,Matrices, and Quaternions;
Chapter 28: Calculus of Variation;
Chapter 29: Basic Physics;
Chapter 30: Taylor Expansion and Derivative Approximations;
Chapter 31: Differential Equations and Numerical Integration;
Chapter 32: Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces;
Chapter 33: Open Non-uniform B-Spline Theory;
Chapter 34: The Linear Complementary Problems;
Chapter 35: Open Tissue;
Appendix: About the CD-ROM